Uploading an Image to Facebook in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
Full code tutorial on taking, formatting & uploading images to Facebook in Windows Phone 7.x
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Posting To The Facebook Wall in Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
This post assumes you’ve gone through the process of setting up the permissions for a Facebook app and getting your user to log into Facebook through your app. In short, it assumes you’ve walked through this tutorial. For this tutorial, I’ve re-jiggered the code into a more formal MVVM structure. I’m using MVVM Light because…
Tutorial: Logging Into Facebook with Windows Phone 7 (Silverlight)
UPDATE: This tutorial will no longer work. I’ve updated it (as of late July 2012) at my new blog 25 New Things as my first “new thing” . So, you want to use Facebook to sign into something or in some way integrate Facebook with your Windows Phone 7 app. You are in luck because it…
“Operation Not Permitted” On IsolatedStorageSettings in Windows Phone
This is really fast but it took me a while to figure out. I was getting the following on my recent project when I tried to save something using IsolatedStorageSettings: “Operation not permitted on IsolatedStorageFileStream.” And I couldn’t find anything about it other than a very generic “Looks like a threading problem” answers. Long story…
HttpWebRequest (WebClient) And Tombstoning in Windows Phone 7
My initial concern here was to deal with tombstoning when it comes to HTTP requests, because that issue has kicked my butt on more than one account. But the second thing you’ll find here is a simple pattern for HTTP requests and responses in Windows Phone 7. Most of the .NET code I look at…
Adding Cookies to a Windows Phone 7 HttpWebRequest
I just spent a couple days on this and, in the end, I didn’t really figure it out. Someone else at my work (the brilliant Rylan Barnes) showed me the workaround for it. So… you want to add a cookie to your Windows Phone 7 Silverlight HttpWebRequest. Guess what? It sucks to be you! Or,…
Finding the Unique Device ID in Windows Phone 7 (And Device Manufacturer And Anonymous Windows Live ID)
I’m tired of trying to find things about Windows Phone 7 development, so I’m just going to post links that I find helpful so I can find them later. Here’s Nick Harris with a handy set of static methods for getting the following unique IDs: Device Manufacturer ID DeviceExtendedProperties.TryGetValue(“DeviceManufacturer”, out someObject); example: “HTC” Device ID…
Windows Phone 7 Push Notification For Beginners–The Device
OK… it’s been almost 2 months since I tried to start this series and now I’m going to finish it. A brief warning: this is done with pre-Mango bits so it won’t have all the latest, greatest most exciting things like the back-tile functionality or deep linking. (Here’s a good blog post on all that.)…
How To Load MIX Outsider (With Or Without a Phone)
The very latest and greatest version of the MIX Outsider application is up and ready for download. Mostly text-building fixes and settings updates. Also, check out the MIX Outsider website, built with loving care by Jason Alderman (Twitter: @justsomeguy) If you download the app above, you’ll notice it is in the *.xap format, which is…
Introducing MIX11 Outsider for Windows Phone 7
UPDATE (4/9/2011) : MIX Outsider has been updated to fix some “no network” issues and refine the message creation. Download MIX Outsider (for sideloading) MIX11 Outsider is the MIX11 app that doesn’t care about your schedule. It cares about something more important: the people you want to talk to, meet, or otherwise hang out with…